Red Cross

1. Abbr. RC

a. An international organization that cares for the wounded, sick, and homeless in wartime, according to the terms of the Geneva Convention of 1864, and now also during and following natural disasters.

b. A national branch of this organization.

2. The emblem of this organization, a Geneva cross or a red Greek cross on a white background.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Red Cross

1. (Medicine) an international humanitarian organization (Red Cross Society) formally established by the Geneva Convention of 1864. It was originally limited to providing medical care for war casualties, but its services now include liaison between prisoners of war and their families, relief to victims of natural disasters, etc

2. (Medicine) any national branch of this organization

3. (Medicine) the emblem of this organization, consisting of a red cross on a white background

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Red′ Cross′

1. an international philanthropic organization (Red′ Cross′ Soci`ety), formed in consequence of the Geneva Convention of 1864 chiefly to care for the sick and wounded in war.

2. a branch of this organization.

3. Also, red′ cross′. Geneva cross.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

Red Cross - an international organization that cares for the sick or wounded or homeless in wartime

NGO, nongovernmental organization - an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government

Translations

الصَلِيبُ الَأحْمَر

Červený kříž

Røde Kors

Punainen Risti

Crveni križ

赤十字社

적십자

Röda korset

สภากาชาด

Kızılhaç

Hội chữ thập đỏ

红十字会

Red Cross

n the Red Cross → la Croce Rossa

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

Red Cross

→ الصَلِيبُ الَأحْمَر Červený kříž Røde Kors Rotes Kreuz Ερυθρός Σταυρός Cruz Roja Punainen Risti Croix Rouge Crveni križ Croce Rossa 赤十字社 적십자 Rode Kruis Røde Kors Czerwony Krzyż Cruz Vermelha Красный крест Röda korset สภากาชาด Kızılhaç Hội chữ thập đỏ 红十字会

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

Red Cross

n Cruz Roja

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References in classic literature

The first three books tell the adventures of the Red Cross Knight St.

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Such was the aspect of the times when the folds of the English banner, with the Red Cross in its field, were flung out over a company of Puritans.

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The two were called respectively The Humming Bee, and The Red Cross Knight.

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And there rises up before me all that was there foreshadowed, and I see visions of Damon and Pythias, of life-saving crews and Red Cross nurses, of martyrs and leaders of forlorn hopes, of Father Damien, and of the Christ himself, and of all the men of earth, mighty of stature, whose strength may trace back to the elemental loins of Lop-Ear and Big-Tooth and other dim denizens of the Younger World.

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"Well, I have to go to a Red Cross meeting, anyhow, so I can't come, Tom.

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He has joined a charitable brotherhood; and he is off to the war in Spain with a red cross on his arm, when he ought to be here on his knees, asking his wife to forgive him.

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A motor-omnibus, with its advertisement signs still displayed but a great red cross floating above it, came rocking down the road on its way to the field hospital in the distance.

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"Don't alarm yourself on my account," she answered; "the red cross will protect me."

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At the centre window, the one hung with white damask with a red cross, was a blue domino, beneath which Franz's imagination easily pictured the beautiful Greek of the Argentina.

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D'Artagnan inquired of everyone he met with, went down to the ferry, came up again by the Rue de Seine, and the Red Cross; but nothing, absolutely nothing!

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He was dressed from head to foot in a long white linen cloth, and a high white cap with a red cross printed upon it.

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We have to-day the White Cross as a symbol of chastity, and the Red Cross as a badge of benevolent neutrality in war.

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